Some knols include an automatically-generated list of related knols in the sidebar:
Unfortunately, it's hard to find high-quality articles other than the knols featured on the homepage. The top search results for [Yahoo], [marine biology], [Alan Turing] and many other popular queries are articles copied from Wikipedia. Knol could easily filter these articles from search results, especially considering that Wikipedia has a conflicting license.
Did you spot any interesting knols? I found a well-documented history of Arctic explorers, a tutorial about photography composition and an introduction to usability.
Useful links:
* Knol's changelog
* the most visited knols
I wrote an article on Rationalism.
ReplyDeleteI think it's interesting :p
Your link to Uasability actually links to an overview of Binary Economics.
ReplyDeleteWikipedia doesn't exactly have a "conflicting license". It all depends on the license chosen by the author of the knol. If it is a creative commons one without non-commercial or non-derivative clauses, it is compatible with Wikipedia's GFDL. And it looks like a lot of the knols are released under cc-by (attribution). IIRC that is the default license for knols, so overall there shouldn't be a conflict most times.
ReplyDeleteHmmm No RSS feeds on KNOL .. trying to subscribe to new articles.. that's weird.
ReplyDelete@Waldir:
ReplyDeleteRegarding the conflict between GFDL and Creative Commons, read this page.
"CC-by is one-way-compatible with GFDL - meaning that CC-by content can be used in GFDL work. No non-commercial license can ever be compatible with GFDL."
Knol has many interesting knols now. There are available in many categories. There are written y many professors and executives with industry experience
ReplyDeletehttp://knol.google.com/k/narayana-rao-k-v-s-s/knol-search-directory-of-interesting/2utb2lsm2k7a/3948#